The First War & The First Peace

Revolution

I am the Queen, the gatherer-up of treasures, most thoughtful, first of those who merit worship. Thus gods have established me in many places with many homes to enter and abide in.   Through me alone all eat the food that feeds them, – each man who sees, breathes, hears the word outspoken. They know it not, yet I reside in the essence of the Universe. Hear, one and all, the truth as I declare it.   I, verily, myself announce and utter the word that gods and men alike shall welcome. I make the man I love exceedingly mighty, make him nourished, a sage, and one who knows Brahman.   I bend the bow for Rudra, that his arrow may strike, and slay the hater of devotion. I rouse and order battle for the people, I created Earth and Heaven and reside as their Inner Controller.   On the world's summit I bring forth sky the Father: my home is in the waters, in the ocean as Mother. Thence I pervade all existing creatures, as their Inner Supreme Self, and manifest them with my body.   I created all worlds at my will, without any higher being, and permeate and dwell within them. The eternal and infinite consciousness is I, it is my greatness dwelling in everything.   — Devi Sukta, Rigveda 10.125.3 – 10.125.8

The Maw gaped only wider; eager to gulp the ocean away.   Seeing their fate; Two became One: A desperate manoeuvre while all the world was drowning.   That One was Lôkə, Cosmic Mothers Who's Eternal Love Birthed All-Reality. Her mercy brought refuse to the other Ishvara, who scrambled for survival. And for a time, they floated together. Safe.   To aid in Her battle against the sotrm, they supplicated her. Five great titans came to make the land: to suspend the world above oblivion, to keep the universe stable for the epochs to come, to provide the building blocks for all new life, to protect the new world, and to bring peace and prosperity to it.